PA Minister of Religious Affairs: Israel "plans to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and establish the alleged Temple in its place"

PA Ministry of Foreign Affairs in official statement: Israeli PM Netanyahu's plan is "to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and build the alleged Temple"

Fatah youth movement encourages more conflict, calls for "widening confrontations with the occupation"; if Jerusalem is "harmed," "it means opening the gates of hell before the occupiers"

PA and Fatah emphasize need for Palestinian "defense" of "Arab and Islamic Jerusalem"

PA government "demands Islamic nation notice real danger for Al-Aqsa Mosque, [which] obligates Muslims throughout the world to act"

Despite Israel's decision to remove its security measures at the Temple Mount on July 24, Palestinian Authority leaders continue to provoke anger and instill fear in Palestinians by repeating the libel that the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem are "in danger," and that Israel wants to "destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque" in order to "build the alleged Temple." The PA government stressed the need for Palestinian "defense" of "Arab and Islamic Jerusalem."

On the same day that Israel started to remove the metal detectors it had put up following a terror attack in which two Israeli border policemen were murdered on the Temple Mount, the PA Minister of Religious Affairs repeated the libel that "Al-Aqsa is in danger" on official PA TV: